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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1856-03-11

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wt'l VOL.IL MOUNT VCKIVOIV ItEPUBLICAN , , rUBUSHKD EVKBT TUH)T MOBNIM, Ui WM H. OOOHBAK. KREMLIN IILOCK, UP-STAIRS. IltHI! $2,00 Per Annum, If In Advance. ADVERTISING' ' The Rktubmcan baa the largest circulation ' !n the county aud li, therefore, llie best medium through which business men can advertise. A d ygrtUementi will be Inserted at the following RATES. 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UTAH transient advertisements to be paid In advance, and none will be inserted unless for a definite time montioncd AGENTS. The following persons are authorized to receive money on subscriptions for The Republi can, and receipt tnerelor: Dr. J. B. Ceoolt, Homer, Ohio. Ggo. Moons, Raymou Busr, i)r S. D Jonk, David Kes. Hsnut L Osnottx, Thomas Haxce, W.G. Strong, Rev. T, M. Finnky, J so. Safp, Utica, Delaware, Granville Chestervilla, Bennington, Marengo, Fredcricktown, Murtinsburgh, Danville, 1 ' - From the New York Tribune. SLATE TRAGEDY AT CINCINNATI. BY MBS. MABY A. UVEBMOBI. Bright the Sabbath sun is shining through the clear and frosty air ; Solemnly the bells are calling to the house of ' praise and prayer; And with thoughts devout and holy, thither many wend their way, ' To renew to God their pledges but I cannot go to day. For my soul is aick and saddened with that frarful tale of woe, Which has blanched the check of mothers to . the whiteness of the snow; .. i And my thoughts aro wandering ever where ' the pri-on walls surround " Vho parents and their children, in helpless bondage bound. Oh, thou mother, maddened, frenzied, when the , ... hunters 'a toils ensnared Thee and thy nestlings, till thy anguished spir-' it dared Send to God, uncalled, one darling life that round thine own did twine .Worthy of a Spartan mother, was that fearful deed of thinel 4;' Worthy of the Roman father, who sheathed deep his flashing knite In the bosom of Virginia, in the currert of her life! ' Who, rather than his beauteous child should . . live a tyrant's slave, Opened the way to freedom through the portals of the gravel Well, I know iio stronger yearning than a mo-! ' ther's love can be - . I could do and dare forever for the babe upon r 1 my kneel ' ' And I feel no deeper sorrow cculd the light of life eclipse! Than to see death's shadows settle on its brow and faded lips. Yet, (oh God of heaven, forgive mel) baby sitting on my knee, ; T could close thy blue eyes calmly, smiling ' now so sweet on me 1 ,.. Ah, my hand could ope the casket, and thy pre . . : cious soul set free: V Better for thee Death and Heaven, than a life of ' Slavery! '' And, before the Judge Eternal, this should be ' my anguish plea, ' " They would rob my child of Manhood; so, uncalled, I sent it Thee! " Hope and Love, and Joy, and Knowledge, and her every Right they crave; , So I gave her what they left her her iuheri-' '' ' tance the gravel And the Lord would judge between us, oh! yo men of stony heart! Even 'gainst the strong and nighty, for the weak Ho takcth part, "" Think ye, hunters of His children, bowed be-,.. neath your iron rod, . With your heel upon their heart-pulse, this'ye , . do unto your God I But the day of Tengcance eometh He will set " His children free,' t Though He lead them, like His Israel, through a red and bloody sea; ' For the tears and gore of bondmon, staining -..y,?, . deep the frightful sod, ' And the wailing cry of millions risetb daily up - to God! -KW The male heirs of the celebrated Roxburgh estate, in Scotland, (sons of Sir ' Andrew Ker, of Kelso, Scotland,) are said t to be sojourning at present in the United 8tates. ' The family of Ker is one of the 'most ancient in Scotland, and occupies' nn .! honorable and eonspioious place on her his- toriopage. '- ' - ' - ' ' - M J.':' The public debt of Missouri, if!n--ereased to the full extent authorised bj the act of the Legislature tn relation to rail- ADDRESS or hie REPUBLICANS OF MARYLAND! WRITTEN BY F. P. BLAIR. The followinsr able documont from the pen of an old Jackson Democrat, promulgated by the Republicans of a Slave State, was red before the Mass Convention at Pittsburg, and culls for Iho attentive consideration of all who would bo politically informed, and who feel nn interest in the the welfare of our country : There is a great body of thinking men in the Southern States, many I know in Maryland a considerable number, my neighbors in Montgomery county, who de- f)lore the repeal of the Compromises in re-ation to Slavery, which all hoped had terminated the disiraction growing out of this disturbing subject forever. It is true the.-io people have not hitherto manifested by puuuo ueroonsirauons ineir soncitme. The violation of good faith in the breach of these compacts of pence b tween the sections, anu llie tntnl consequences likely to follow, were not at first obvious to the mass of Southern people, because by the art of the politicians who conducted the passage of the measure, through secret caucus, where all the personal interests of me leaatrs in Congress, nnd their partisans, making up the mujority in both Houses necessary to effect it, were previously arranged the repe al was made to appear as the voluntary tenderof the North to the South. There had been no consultation by tho members of Congress, in any quarier, with their constituents, either by issues made before the people, during the canvass or afterwards, or by uddrcss, petition and votes in public meetings, or by resolutions.Among us extraordinary changes affecting large interests and reaching the feelings, the prejudices, the leligious and political principles of men, as we'l as the political power of the States had hitherto always been preceded or altended by every mode of forming and eliciting the public opinion, which is the vital movement in a Republican Government. But in the late overthrow of all the adjustments of lhj raost anxious question which Congress has had to deal with, from the first to the pres ent session, not a whisper of the deign was permitted to reach the public ear until its 6uccets was sealed by the private arrangements of the politicians in Congress, in conjunction wiih the President. The measure when publicly pvesenled was at first veiled in the Committee's Report, as being but a reference to the Supreme Court ot a question involving the constitutionality of the compromise then as a conclu sion that the compromise of 1850, but this interpretation of the Bill, covertly contained the repeal of the compromise of 1820 that of 1850 and also the compact with Texas, by which all the Territory reserved by each of them as free from slavery in the territorial cundition was opened up to its ndniission. This Bill of intrigue, passed in conclave, by the nspiring politicians lo subserve personal interests, wns well understood by themselves and their partiz ins to be a bonus for the Southern vote in (he election of President, bnt it was ushered into Congress as the voluntary offerings of the North 10 the South to the principle of equality. It was thus divested in the eyes of the South, of being a breach of faith on their fide. It came as a free gift to them from the Chief Magistrate and other leading men, Representatives of their Northern brethren.They were not aware of the treachery of thete Representatives to their constituents, nor did they anticipate the excitement which has ensued from the wrong, aggravated by the betrayal by which it was attended, nor the dangerous consequences likely to follow. Multitudes of honest patriots in the Slnveholding States, who love the Union, would willingly restore the com promises, the work of tho great men of their own region. They are sensible of the fatal effect of its dissoluiion upon the peace and prosperity of the confederacy and of the inevitable destruction of the security in which they hold the Slave Institution of the frightful scenes of civil war and Slave insurrection which might nrie out ol the collisions between the two sections, on the one side wearing the aspect of a war of conquest, for the extension of S'avery, on the other a war of defence to preserve the rights or the emigrants who have gone from their bosom. But these men of good faith who respect engagements, nnd above all, the engigemenls which have produced concord and happy ties between the Stales of the Union, find their section already embarked in strife by the combination of politicians, who seek personal advantages by the power it gives them over the masses. YVarfnre always commits the power nnd interests of the many, to the few chiefs who manage it; and so the whole South is at this moment in the hands of (he politicians who have contrived the movement, to strip the North of its interests, as provided for in the several compromise; and the besi men of the Slave holding States, who are sensible of the iniquity cannot venture to declare their sentiments, lest they incur the imputation of deserting their section in a contest in which the leaders who have produced it, would subject them to the charge' of failing to stand by the cause of their peculiar Institutions. ' The persons who have sent me to this Convention, are the first of theslave-holding region who have come forward to vindicate the cause of our common country against this sectional influence. They are a body of business men of Baltimore, who feel that their city especially and the State of Maryland have a great slake depending on the preservation of the Union and the peace -of the country. - If the bonds which unite the two bortions of the Union distinguished by fr4 Add slave institutidni should be severed,' the nature of the different interests growing out ef the species of property in which it consists on the one side, must involve continual Conflicts for its recovery, when flying to the: other lor freedomand the animosity thus engender MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCfTll,"l85G ed cannot fail to bring on those protraoted ana bloody wars of nmbition nnd conquest which havo characterized nations of contiguous Territory in every nge, and which have produced the most relentless hostilities between those of kindred blood. The wars between England, Scotland and Irelandthe wars between ranee and Eng. land of France and the northern nations of the continent wars which make up the history of Europe, would hnve their parallel here, Maryland would become tho Belgium of this Bide of the Atlantic the Po-lomao the Rhine. Tho shores of all our great rivers dividing the hostile States, would frown with toitresses and centuries of bloodshed ensue, unless tho peculiar cause originating the strife, which make an early end of it, by the intestine war of colors hasten its own extinction. 1 Those I represent abhoring the thought of civil war pressed on the mind of every man by the sectional feud, which, although now showing its violence only upon a re mote frontier, is nevertheless at work in every spirited heart on the continent, have desired me to submit to this Convention, convened to take the initiative in the nomination of a Chief Magistrate to uphold the cau-e of the Free Sta e- in the controversy, a proposition marked by justice and mode-radon, to restore good feeling and concord, and certainly there never was a contest where the plain honest idea that directed Jackson's Administration was of such easy application in settling a difficulty. Yet the North ask nothing but what k clearly right, and submit to nothing that is wrong, and it cannot fail to bring th quarrel to an honorable termination. The dispute about the Territories was adjusted so satisfactorily to the whole country that all parties, however widely differing on other subjects, made it a point to give in adhesion to the settlement in every subsequent election and the candidates for the Presidency before and in tho last canvas3, in obedience to the several nominating conventions, stood upon it as a piaiiorm. The present Chief M urislrate did more Jjy t.ie very terms ot liti lnnutrural address. closed in a solemn oath, he may be said to J Aiken, the Administration can ddate for have sworn his allegiance to the compro-j Speaker at the close of the contest. This mises of the Slave question, declaring tliey proves that all political organizations hos-S'iould not be disturbed if -he could prevent , tile ns they are on all subordinate ques-il during his te.m of service. He renewed ; lions, upon the sectional policy of extend-the vow iu the message to the first Con-iinj Slavery to Territory hitherto free, are gress he met; and before its close became one and indivisible. The success achieved the active instrument in aboli bins every: by the Southern Politicians bv inducing all compromise made on the suhj-'ct since the foundation of ihe government. It was done with the suddenness of the explosion of a mine of powder. The system plan - ned by Jefferson and his compatriots to prevent tho extHnsion of Slavery and its dangerous tendency to disruption of the Union the safeguard superadded under Monroe's administration. L iwn- des, Pickney, Calhoun, Crawford, and an uie great men oi tiid ojuiii aiding; nna oeing a voluntary boon tendered by the Clay especially distinguishing himself, nf- North to the South, It is this strategy ter two years of struggle, in its effectuation , flhicli renders it impossible at this time lor the late disposition of the controversy Ihose among the people who favor the com-about the Mexican acqui itions accomplish-' promises, to rally in the Sjuth to maintain ea oy tne same great man, supported by Webster, Cass nnd by Benton, also a;reei on the main point the exclusion of Slave- ry in the prohibition of the Mexican laws, ! in a word, all compromUes on the subject made by the real statesman of the coumry, and pronounced by them as binding in hou- or as the compromises of the Constitution, were mown up oy the accts i.m ot i'resi- dent Pierce and Mr. Douglas, in the scliem. of Mr. Alchison and a few Nullifiers who prepared the mine. i Now the simple remedy for this ruin is to reuunu me worK overtnrown, nna nowi- tng ts rn-ii'Mf resolved upon by the North, and persisted in without regard to paity names or party ties, or individual designs or predilections. There is not an honest tho violntion of the rights of the North, to patriot in the North of any parly who ' assert thtm, as all have united in the. South does n it condemn this net of bad faith. I to deny them, tho injustice will soon be Mmy.it is trm-, warped by schemes of . remedied. When the North is true to itself, !elfish ambition and locking to their ad- j there are multitudes in the other section vancement through Southern influence, say who will perceive the iniquity it has suf-the mischief done, cannot be repaired. j fered, but who would never see it, if tame-The compromise can not be rt stored be-Jy acquiesced in. There are thousands in cause the Senate and tho President hold a J the South who are sensible of the danger vote to forbid it. There was immeasura-1 to themselves in lite breach of tho com-bly a stronger vote against tho expunging pacts about Slavery who estimate truly Resolution the ball which Benton solitary j the cnsi quenccs of a rupture of good feel-aid alone, put in motion. But public opin-J ing between tho sections nnd who, rather ion tr.umphed then over the strongest wills j than bring matters to tho arbitrament, to and the ao'est men of the country. It can-j which they seem to b- hastening, would not bi withstood by the puppets now in the, willingly seo the broken compacts restored scene. In the meantime, the strong rep- hut if from want of concert of action, resentalion of the North in the House can tho North, however, injured nnd excited noiu everything in noeyance until the JNa-i lion's voice shall pronounce its irresistiblo decision. Tha' the South will acquiesce in it, whatever (he violent men, who seek a dissolution of the Union to make Charleston the New York of the South, none can doubt. How can it assume thn attitude of nullification, and war upon the compromises nnd compacts of its own seeking matured by its own greatest Statesmen, under which they have enjoyed peace and safety for two-thirds of a century, and the subversion of which makes the tennre, not only of I he domestic Institution, but of all they hold dearest in public or private life, depend on the chai.e s of civil war. Whenever this issue comes, the North will find an auxiliary in that same Union party in the South, that sustained Jackson, and my constituents will have the proudpre-emi-nence of haVin first given in their adhesion to this, the really patriotic party of their section. . , Tin repeal of the repealing clause of the Xebraska Kansas act, would be the finale of all the existing commotions, and of the eager nmbition which originated them. If this single line is inscribed on our Flag we shall conquer under it. It will be the Un ion Flag. The repeal of the Kansas Nebraska clause, overthrowing the rights of the Free Stales, is a vital, pressing exigency, It is the issue made by .(he acts of. the administration, and is the only one producing the existing excitement. It should be moved at once in the House of Representatives, as a practical mode of redressing the wrongs and rebuking the aggressors, and (o give - q - " r notice that the maioritv of the people of the Union mean to vindicate their rights! and" the cause of free institution, , In, the most direct manner; and also, that slave holders may have warning in advanco, not to hazard the property they value so highly, in a territory from which by solemn covenant slavery was interdicted, and which the sovereign power of tho country has resolved to reinstate. This warning is necessary to preclude the plea of vested rights; as having effect in favor of such as go into Kansas or other freo territory with slaves; a plea which was urged successful- ly in Missouri. It is necessary too to stop owners or slaves irora claiming indemnity for slaves, freed by the act of Congress, recognizing such territory on coming into the Union as free. Even if Kansas were admitted at the present session of Congress as a Free State, the repeal ought to bo urged to prevent the repetition of the Kansas outrages, in New Mexico, Utah, and all the territory of the United States, tho Nebraska net having (in violation of the pro-hibitory laws or treaty,) opened them all up to similar invasions. For these reasons, and many more that might be urged, touching the policy of tho measure, I bold that every issue should merge in that of Jtepeai. There is one view more which duty lo my Southern constituents prompts me to present for con-ideration. In tiie South both the old part;es, Whig nnd Democratic, have blended their itregUi, to secure the conquest of the free terriuries for the Slave Institution. Mr. Caruthers.n staunch Whig of M.ssotin, when askinl where were the Whig party; answered lint its soul had transmigrated into the Dern icra ic body in the South, and while pronouncing the proudest culogium on Henry Clay whose principles he still held as his poliiioal faith, admit ed that the measure on which the slave holding section had planted its stand-arJ, iiad identified in its support the Whigs and Democrats of the slave holding States, however differing on other questions. The South Americans, although all connection with them was reprobated by the Democratic Caucus of the House and bv the of- n i - ., .... . nciai organ oi tne Administration at Wash ML'ton. were constranied to sunnnrt Mr. ! the Northern aspirants for the Presidency , to rur. a race for the favor of the South, in j showing who would go farthest and fastest . to make surrender of the rights of their constituents lo the slaveholdiii" section, leaves no puhlic man in the Sju'.Ii any oth;r alternative than to relin vttUh his position, or insist on that great conquest for the slaveholder iiiteivsr. tn which it was contrived to give the appenrnnce of what they are sensible honor and good faith recognizes ns binding, because made by its own statesmen, then in command of the Governmmt, aud sanctioned by their own consent. In the South there can never be 1 a party to asiist in redressing this wron", until the North dispels by its unanimity the ; illusion, that its people are willing to ac- quiesce in it. The hopes depending on parly leaders, ' controlling everywhere the old oraniza- tion of the Democratic party ia the free States and tho influence and patronage of ine au ministration, nave done much to stifle the voice of the masses in the Free States, If they will in the approaching Presiden- tial election unite all parties, indignant at can maue no ettectuni resistance, it may prepare for a repetition of indignities and wrongs to which those who offer (hem will set no limit when there is no bound to submission. This Republican Convention is a nucleus which it mny be hoped will gather around it the mass of the North who are resolved to redress tho wrong perpetrated by tho passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act. . "Republican parly" was the early designation of that which subsequently took the soubriquet of Democrat at first given in derision. Mr. Jefferson in his first inaugural, calling the parlies bynames under which they then were arrayed against each oilier, said "we are all Republicans, we are all federalists." He meant, doubtless, that there were certain great principles in which both ngreed embraced in iheir designations, however much they disagreed about matters of policy and modes of administering the Government. Tho Federalists gave their support to the Republican form of government. The Republicans were devoted to the federal compact; both agreed in opposition to royalty, nnd in opposition to a severance of the federation, and leaving the States to drift as petty nations detached from each other. May not those who have organized with a J view to correct what they consider more error in the legislation and administration of Government, under.' whatever party name or watchword they rally, unite with those who do not agree with them about the measure) or mode of reform on points which involve nothing vital, to redeem the Government from an infraction of the fun-amental laws, on which they believe its peace and prosperity certainly depend, and t r nossiblr its Unitv ns a nation? Cannot all parlies in the North unite in such a crisis. to preserve "whrtt they In common feel to be paramount to all other questions in con troverBy which have heretofore divided them, and cannot all rallv under a Renub lican Standard to defend the cnuso of free institutions nnd the Union awinst the nnr gressions of interested and ambitious men. who make slavery a means of combining a sectionnl force to accomplish (heir designs against them, and especially if this moment ue lost me cause must be lost; The great object of defeatin? this at tempt, by putting all questions of difference in abeyance for a time, does not imply a surrender oi tho party principles, or of the organizations to bo employed to give effect to them hereatler. Hut such is the rcluo tance of men who have battled for a cause under a banner to which thev have riven their affections so loyal are the hearts of gooci men, even to the badges they have worn nnd which they honor, that they will not desert them for others, although they feel the necessity of uniting with those whom they have once opposed, in support of still dearer and more important interests. I think this noble feeling should be con sulted by this Convention in tho arrange ments it may make to produce concert among nil parties who place tho preservation of the free territories from Slavery (and as a result, the preservation of tho Union,) above all other subjects of controversy, and it is to be hoped that measures be adopted to induce all the friends of Ibis cause, who are willing to take part in nom inating candidates for tho first and second officers of the Government in the Republican Convention, to send delegates to sep arate Conventions under their own party designations, to meet nt the same lime and place to confer upon the subject of the nom inations, nnd in conclusion, if found neces sary anu practicuoie, to unito m a mnss meeting of the Representatives of all par ties, drawn together to confer in regard to the means of extricating the country from the threatening and most alarming position in which it is now placed surrendering for tho occasion all questions of minor dif ferences of policy, nnd reform nnd personal predilections, for men of this or that party, nnd giving, as did lha patriots of the Revolution, the whole heart to the cause aiijd nothing but the cause, nnd thus bv joint counsels secure a glorious triumph for ine conservative principle ot our govern mentthe public will. Tho candidates of such a mass meeting would stand above the conflicts of pnrtizan politics, and like the elevated duels who led in the estab lishment of our inlependence, would value no man but as a contributor, to the success of the great cause of the country. LEAP YEAR. . . It is well'known fact that the ladies are nllowed, by the conventional rules of socie ty and common consent, to take the lead of the men every leap year, and if they feel disposed, to go so lar as to "pop the ques tion" without' being considered rude or forward. Although the right and privilege is conceded to the ladies, we seldom hear of them taking advantage of it. However, one case in which the lady did avail herself of the privileges of leap year, occured in this city on New Year's day. We will relate the particulars, but not givo the real names, for the reason that the parties' are residents of this city, and might not relish the idea of having the privacy of their domestic affairs brought before the public. There is a certain fashionable; boarding house in this city(we will locate it on Third street) where a very handsome young widow was boarding. This lady we will call widow Cheerly, who has a fortune of some $30,000, left her by her deceased husband, and no children. Three young clerks, (we will name them Smith, Brown, and Jones,) who formerly boarded at this boarding house, called upon the landlady on New Years day. The Widow Cheerly was in her room, and saw the young gents approaching. She immediately "dressed herself up in her bridal array," called the landlady and inquired the names of the young gents. The landlady informed her, when she remarked, "I intend to hare one of,those young men for a husband." The landlady smiled incredulously, and then went down to the parlor to receive her visitors. The widow followed immediately, and without waiting for an introduction, approached Smith, and said; "Will you consent to become my husband?" The young man blushed, and was very much confused at hearing the question from a lady he had never before seen, but he finally succeeded in stammering out "Owing to the shortness of our acquaintance which is very short, and having some slight claims upon my affections, yon will phase excuse me, "Certainly," said the widow, "I will with pleasure, as I did not notice this gentleman," addressing Mr. Brown, "before I spoke to you, or else I would have proposed to him first. Will you marry me Mr. Brown?" "I will'" said Brown, "the ico is now broken. I would have been a married man years ago if I could have mustered coui nge enough to pop the question, but as you have taken advantage of leap year and removed the stunib ing block, I will become your husband just as soon as you please." uight on," remarked the widow; landlady, you will pleas send for my bonnet, and other outdoor apparel. The necessary articles were sent for, and Mr. Brown, wiih his intended hanging gracefully on his arm, started for the residence of the pastor of the Boatman's church. When the minister was about to unite the couple in the bonds of wedlock, they gave him their names, and each heard for the first time, their names. ' During the last half of the year 1855, no less than four ministers and priests, four lawyers, eight doctors, and twohundred and eighly-two women were arresteJm Chicago for crimer" Ob, what a placel Vltvetand Ltadtr ' tTl am taking down the census of denslj populated neighborhood," as the fellow said when he swallowed the skip- jiery cheese. THE ENOW NOTHING CONVENTION. TheClosinf Scenes The Holt and the Nouiiuuliou"-An Iutorentiug Row, The motion to go into the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President was made by the famous Parson Brownlow, of Tenn., nnd carried by yeas 151; nays 51. Tho N. Y. Tribune's reporter says of this motion: It had all the Southern votes, all of N. York, half of Pennsylvania, a quarter of uuio, two-thirds of Massachusetts nnd Wisconsin, and part of Illinois; Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts furnished tho votes against it. SPEECH OV PERKINS, OF CONN. When (he vote was declared. Mr. Per kins, of Conn., rose, and after intense confusion and excitement for some moments, commanded full attention. He had litllo now to say for the North, only he should speak a little more in earnest. Gentlemen of the South had before stated their posi tion; ho would now state that of the mi nority. It was generally conceded that if men participate in a nomination, whether a principle is involved or not, all who joined in makinsr a nomination were bound bv it. Now, that there may be no misunderstand ing, i will, as a deputy by my friends of i. . : . . j .. .... it . mo uiiuuniy, state uuruecision. we nave come at lust to a test question. There are two great questions before tho minds of the people of this country; One is the is sue of Americanism, which is simply the reiorra ot .Naturalization jjaws; that we are ngreed in. But, sir, there is nnother question which must he an element in the coming canvnss, in which the people are deeply interested; that is, tht question of what snail be done about to the restoration of Freedom to Kansas; what shall be done to compensate the North for the loss of that guaranty for freedom which has been stolen from them. Tho South admits that the Kansas-Nebraska act wns a frxud; they cannot and dare not deny it. This ques tion cannot be ignored: it must be mel; no cnndidate can be nominated whose po sition on that question is doubtful. You must declare yourselves in this issue. The South would have seceded Irom this convention hud the Twelfth Section been re pealed purely and simply; they owned it; and now will they expect us to do less than they would have done? The free territory was ours by compact, by argument, by the most solemn sanction. You have stolen it from us by the treachery of Northern men; you admit that you ouiiht to re store to us our own, but you refuse to do it. This is a practical question it is no abstraction. JNow what is your chance on your platform which means nothing, or is a lJro blavcry one? You cannot carry me J50UU1 not a single atate, in any event Wo could sweep the whole North on our platform, and you do your br st to defeat us; you commit a suicide. You pretend that wo are to bo sold out to the Black Republicans; I know no such. But we shall those of us who are driven away from you go for our principles our A-mericanism, our freedom; and the Republicans of the country will join with us. Mr. Perkins derided the" idea of danger to the Union. No man on this floor believes a dissolution of the Union is possible; it is an idle dream a silly fantasy. The Union is in no danger, and no man thinks it is. If you won't give us what we demand, we will take it ourselves, and the Union will not be dissolved. Every President, from Washington to James K. Polk, has done all we claim shall be done now; and yet the Union has not suffered. You cannot carry this Union on stars and stripes and the American eagle without something reliable to stand upon. We can save Americanism and secure freedom to the territories together, and we will do it. We are nut going to sizzle and fade out; we are going out hs the American party of the Un ion, standing upon the plattorm we have presented this morning, nnd calling a Convention for the whole Union, standing up on the platform. We have got a Fugitive Slave law; we obey it; but we will nol hunt niggers; there is no gentleman on this floor North or South, who will engage in this business of hunting niggers not one of you. We in Connecticut don't think much of this law we don't think it Constitution al, but we do not intend to dissolve the Union because of it. It was passed more ns an illustration of favor, than as a practical measure just to see how far you could crowd tho north. Mr. Perkins concluded his most admirable and eloquent speech with the announcement that all Delegates of Connecticut, and others from the Free Stales who agree with Ihem, would now retire from the Convention. After more speaking in this line, a nominating ballot wns taken (each delegate naming his candidate) and the following was the result: Millard Fillmore of N.Y.. ........... 71 George Law of N. Y. ....... , ?7 Garrett Davis of Ky 13 John McLean of Ohio 7 Richard F. Stockton of N. J 8 Sam Houston of Texas 6 John Belt of Tenn 5 Kenneth Raynor of N. C 2 Ei as' us Brooks of N. Y 2 Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio t John M. Clayton of Del.. 1 Total vote................. m., 143 Mr. Knight . of Rhode Island voted for Fillmore, and no other New England delegate voted. New York voted, Fillmore, 9; Law, 15; Houston, 6; Ernslus Brooks, 1; New Jersey swallowed Com. Stockton entire. ' Pennsylvania (that remomed in JT divided between Gov. Johnson, McLean and Fillmore. . The few Ohio men remaining voted for Law or Fillmore. Kentucky went together for Garrett Davis, and. with scarce an exception, the entire balance of the Hlave states voted for Fillmore. ' The remit of the voting was hailed with great satisfaction by the South and the New York Fillmore men. . The former had secured a bslter gwwanty than any plat- NO. 17 form than even the Twelfth- Section (hat their policy was td bo protected. by the rreat National American n&rtv. - tint (ho Law men drooped sadly; their bubble was burst; men had Voted against them with their dinners and wine in their stomachs, to say nothing of money in their bock-els.Tho Convention then, at 4 o'clotk, took a recess till 5. , i When the Northern men seceded they were derided with insults by the Southern1 men and doughfaces of the North. Cries of "Good riddance," "Glad you are gone," "Black Republicans," dee., were heard id different parts of the house. j EVENINO SESSION. The Convention was called to order at 5 o'clock. . ,i Then was hod tho formal ballot for candidate for President, and the result was as follows the voting being, not by individual delegates, as in the informal ballot, but by States, according to their Federal rep resentation: Millard Fillmore I79 George Law 24 Kenneth Ray nor. ................ 14 John McLean 13 Garreit Davis ifj Sam Houston 3 Whole number , . . ; 243 Necessary to a choice J ; 122 Millard Fillmore, of New York, was then declaied the nominee of the National American Convention for President of the United States. Great excitement ensued, and the Convention was in a tremendous uproar for some moments. , ; , Erastus Brooks of New York returned thanks to the South in behalf of Mr. Fillmore.The Law men were terribly down in th's mouth. . Gen. A. K. Call of Florida, Kenneth. Ray nor of North Carolina, Andrew J. Don-elson of Tennes ee, and several others, were named for iho Vic Presidency. . ., Speeches were made by Mr. Lake of Miss., in behalf of Percy Walker's nomination, arid by Mr. Call of Florida for Major A.J. Donelson of Tennessee. A scene of great tumult ensued; and at last the voting for Vice President commenced. The struggle was chiefly between Donelson and Walker. ' The result of the ballot for Vice President was as follows: A. J. Donelson of Tennessee 18 4 Percy Walker of Mississsippi 8 H. J. Gardner of Massachusetts.'.'....' 8! Kenneth Kaynor of North Carolina.'..' ' 8 A. J. Donelson of Tennessee received the unanimous nomination, for the Ytca Presidency. , Donelson spoke as follows: I lack words to express my thanks for the vote with which yotf have honored ine. I have not sought it, and I shall not do-clinc it, although during Mr. Fillmore's administration he did not agree with us, jet he said we ought to be more Americanized. I have many letters from him, and they all breathe the warmest attachment to the constitution and the Union. I live at the South and I am owner of more than an hundred slaves, and I like the institution as warmly 83 any man bora south of Maio'n and Dixon' line. PROTEST. OF THE OHIO MEMBERS Of TUB NATIOJIA1 COUNCIL- Merchants' Hotel, Cut 0Frnir,., --February, 22, 1856. f The undersigned persons, delegates from Ohiojto the National Council, which assembled in this city on the 18th inst for the purpose of amending or altering the platform adopted in June last, having had forced upon the American order a hew on; as odious as the one repealed, the principles of which are widely different fronK those entertained by ourselves and the constituents whom we represent therefore; we do hereby utterly repudiate its doctrines, and do not consider ourselves bound to support any candidate placed before the country on such platform. J. H. Baker, Thomas Spoone, David Ayerea, Henry C. Heges, D. W. Stambaugh, W. B. Chapman; D. W. Swigsrt, ' E. J. Sturdivant, L. II. Olds, Thomas H. Ford,- A. D. Rogers, , John Johnston, Thomas McLees; B. S. Kyle, - Win. B. Allison; O. T. Fishback, R. M. Corwine, D. B. Thomas; J. B. Potter. The following little document has found its way into the N. Y. Times: We concur in the secession from tli Convention, but do not concur in the call for a Convention, believing that the whole north ought to unite in a common organization to resist the aggression of Slavery. W. P. CLARKE, of Iowa, D.W. STAMBAUGH, of 0.,! THOS. SPOONER, of Ohio, CIIAS. 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For my soul is aick and saddened with that frarful tale of woe, Which has blanched the check of mothers to . the whiteness of the snow; .. i And my thoughts aro wandering ever where ' the pri-on walls surround " Vho parents and their children, in helpless bondage bound. Oh, thou mother, maddened, frenzied, when the , ... hunters 'a toils ensnared Thee and thy nestlings, till thy anguished spir-' it dared Send to God, uncalled, one darling life that round thine own did twine .Worthy of a Spartan mother, was that fearful deed of thinel 4;' Worthy of the Roman father, who sheathed deep his flashing knite In the bosom of Virginia, in the currert of her life! ' Who, rather than his beauteous child should . . live a tyrant's slave, Opened the way to freedom through the portals of the gravel Well, I know iio stronger yearning than a mo-! ' ther's love can be - . I could do and dare forever for the babe upon r 1 my kneel ' ' And I feel no deeper sorrow cculd the light of life eclipse! Than to see death's shadows settle on its brow and faded lips. Yet, (oh God of heaven, forgive mel) baby sitting on my knee, ; T could close thy blue eyes calmly, smiling ' now so sweet on me 1 ,.. Ah, my hand could ope the casket, and thy pre . . : cious soul set free: V Better for thee Death and Heaven, than a life of ' Slavery! '' And, before the Judge Eternal, this should be ' my anguish plea, ' " They would rob my child of Manhood; so, uncalled, I sent it Thee! " Hope and Love, and Joy, and Knowledge, and her every Right they crave; , So I gave her what they left her her iuheri-' '' ' tance the gravel And the Lord would judge between us, oh! yo men of stony heart! Even 'gainst the strong and nighty, for the weak Ho takcth part, "" Think ye, hunters of His children, bowed be-,.. neath your iron rod, . With your heel upon their heart-pulse, this'ye , . do unto your God I But the day of Tengcance eometh He will set " His children free,' t Though He lead them, like His Israel, through a red and bloody sea; ' For the tears and gore of bondmon, staining -..y,?, . deep the frightful sod, ' And the wailing cry of millions risetb daily up - to God! -KW The male heirs of the celebrated Roxburgh estate, in Scotland, (sons of Sir ' Andrew Ker, of Kelso, Scotland,) are said t to be sojourning at present in the United 8tates. ' The family of Ker is one of the 'most ancient in Scotland, and occupies' nn .! honorable and eonspioious place on her his- toriopage. '- ' - ' - ' ' - M J.':' The public debt of Missouri, if!n--ereased to the full extent authorised bj the act of the Legislature tn relation to rail- ADDRESS or hie REPUBLICANS OF MARYLAND! WRITTEN BY F. P. BLAIR. The followinsr able documont from the pen of an old Jackson Democrat, promulgated by the Republicans of a Slave State, was red before the Mass Convention at Pittsburg, and culls for Iho attentive consideration of all who would bo politically informed, and who feel nn interest in the the welfare of our country : There is a great body of thinking men in the Southern States, many I know in Maryland a considerable number, my neighbors in Montgomery county, who de- f)lore the repeal of the Compromises in re-ation to Slavery, which all hoped had terminated the disiraction growing out of this disturbing subject forever. It is true the.-io people have not hitherto manifested by puuuo ueroonsirauons ineir soncitme. The violation of good faith in the breach of these compacts of pence b tween the sections, anu llie tntnl consequences likely to follow, were not at first obvious to the mass of Southern people, because by the art of the politicians who conducted the passage of the measure, through secret caucus, where all the personal interests of me leaatrs in Congress, nnd their partisans, making up the mujority in both Houses necessary to effect it, were previously arranged the repe al was made to appear as the voluntary tenderof the North to the South. There had been no consultation by tho members of Congress, in any quarier, with their constituents, either by issues made before the people, during the canvass or afterwards, or by uddrcss, petition and votes in public meetings, or by resolutions.Among us extraordinary changes affecting large interests and reaching the feelings, the prejudices, the leligious and political principles of men, as we'l as the political power of the States had hitherto always been preceded or altended by every mode of forming and eliciting the public opinion, which is the vital movement in a Republican Government. But in the late overthrow of all the adjustments of lhj raost anxious question which Congress has had to deal with, from the first to the pres ent session, not a whisper of the deign was permitted to reach the public ear until its 6uccets was sealed by the private arrangements of the politicians in Congress, in conjunction wiih the President. The measure when publicly pvesenled was at first veiled in the Committee's Report, as being but a reference to the Supreme Court ot a question involving the constitutionality of the compromise then as a conclu sion that the compromise of 1850, but this interpretation of the Bill, covertly contained the repeal of the compromise of 1820 that of 1850 and also the compact with Texas, by which all the Territory reserved by each of them as free from slavery in the territorial cundition was opened up to its ndniission. This Bill of intrigue, passed in conclave, by the nspiring politicians lo subserve personal interests, wns well understood by themselves and their partiz ins to be a bonus for the Southern vote in (he election of President, bnt it was ushered into Congress as the voluntary offerings of the North 10 the South to the principle of equality. It was thus divested in the eyes of the South, of being a breach of faith on their fide. It came as a free gift to them from the Chief Magistrate and other leading men, Representatives of their Northern brethren.They were not aware of the treachery of thete Representatives to their constituents, nor did they anticipate the excitement which has ensued from the wrong, aggravated by the betrayal by which it was attended, nor the dangerous consequences likely to follow. Multitudes of honest patriots in the Slnveholding States, who love the Union, would willingly restore the com promises, the work of tho great men of their own region. They are sensible of the fatal effect of its dissoluiion upon the peace and prosperity of the confederacy and of the inevitable destruction of the security in which they hold the Slave Institution of the frightful scenes of civil war and Slave insurrection which might nrie out ol the collisions between the two sections, on the one side wearing the aspect of a war of conquest, for the extension of S'avery, on the other a war of defence to preserve the rights or the emigrants who have gone from their bosom. But these men of good faith who respect engagements, nnd above all, the engigemenls which have produced concord and happy ties between the Stales of the Union, find their section already embarked in strife by the combination of politicians, who seek personal advantages by the power it gives them over the masses. YVarfnre always commits the power nnd interests of the many, to the few chiefs who manage it; and so the whole South is at this moment in the hands of (he politicians who have contrived the movement, to strip the North of its interests, as provided for in the several compromise; and the besi men of the Slave holding States, who are sensible of the iniquity cannot venture to declare their sentiments, lest they incur the imputation of deserting their section in a contest in which the leaders who have produced it, would subject them to the charge' of failing to stand by the cause of their peculiar Institutions. ' The persons who have sent me to this Convention, are the first of theslave-holding region who have come forward to vindicate the cause of our common country against this sectional influence. They are a body of business men of Baltimore, who feel that their city especially and the State of Maryland have a great slake depending on the preservation of the Union and the peace -of the country. - If the bonds which unite the two bortions of the Union distinguished by fr4 Add slave institutidni should be severed,' the nature of the different interests growing out ef the species of property in which it consists on the one side, must involve continual Conflicts for its recovery, when flying to the: other lor freedomand the animosity thus engender MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCfTll,"l85G ed cannot fail to bring on those protraoted ana bloody wars of nmbition nnd conquest which havo characterized nations of contiguous Territory in every nge, and which have produced the most relentless hostilities between those of kindred blood. The wars between England, Scotland and Irelandthe wars between ranee and Eng. land of France and the northern nations of the continent wars which make up the history of Europe, would hnve their parallel here, Maryland would become tho Belgium of this Bide of the Atlantic the Po-lomao the Rhine. Tho shores of all our great rivers dividing the hostile States, would frown with toitresses and centuries of bloodshed ensue, unless tho peculiar cause originating the strife, which make an early end of it, by the intestine war of colors hasten its own extinction. 1 Those I represent abhoring the thought of civil war pressed on the mind of every man by the sectional feud, which, although now showing its violence only upon a re mote frontier, is nevertheless at work in every spirited heart on the continent, have desired me to submit to this Convention, convened to take the initiative in the nomination of a Chief Magistrate to uphold the cau-e of the Free Sta e- in the controversy, a proposition marked by justice and mode-radon, to restore good feeling and concord, and certainly there never was a contest where the plain honest idea that directed Jackson's Administration was of such easy application in settling a difficulty. Yet the North ask nothing but what k clearly right, and submit to nothing that is wrong, and it cannot fail to bring th quarrel to an honorable termination. The dispute about the Territories was adjusted so satisfactorily to the whole country that all parties, however widely differing on other subjects, made it a point to give in adhesion to the settlement in every subsequent election and the candidates for the Presidency before and in tho last canvas3, in obedience to the several nominating conventions, stood upon it as a piaiiorm. The present Chief M urislrate did more Jjy t.ie very terms ot liti lnnutrural address. closed in a solemn oath, he may be said to J Aiken, the Administration can ddate for have sworn his allegiance to the compro-j Speaker at the close of the contest. This mises of the Slave question, declaring tliey proves that all political organizations hos-S'iould not be disturbed if -he could prevent , tile ns they are on all subordinate ques-il during his te.m of service. He renewed ; lions, upon the sectional policy of extend-the vow iu the message to the first Con-iinj Slavery to Territory hitherto free, are gress he met; and before its close became one and indivisible. The success achieved the active instrument in aboli bins every: by the Southern Politicians bv inducing all compromise made on the suhj-'ct since the foundation of ihe government. It was done with the suddenness of the explosion of a mine of powder. The system plan - ned by Jefferson and his compatriots to prevent tho extHnsion of Slavery and its dangerous tendency to disruption of the Union the safeguard superadded under Monroe's administration. L iwn- des, Pickney, Calhoun, Crawford, and an uie great men oi tiid ojuiii aiding; nna oeing a voluntary boon tendered by the Clay especially distinguishing himself, nf- North to the South, It is this strategy ter two years of struggle, in its effectuation , flhicli renders it impossible at this time lor the late disposition of the controversy Ihose among the people who favor the com-about the Mexican acqui itions accomplish-' promises, to rally in the Sjuth to maintain ea oy tne same great man, supported by Webster, Cass nnd by Benton, also a;reei on the main point the exclusion of Slave- ry in the prohibition of the Mexican laws, ! in a word, all compromUes on the subject made by the real statesman of the coumry, and pronounced by them as binding in hou- or as the compromises of the Constitution, were mown up oy the accts i.m ot i'resi- dent Pierce and Mr. Douglas, in the scliem. of Mr. Alchison and a few Nullifiers who prepared the mine. i Now the simple remedy for this ruin is to reuunu me worK overtnrown, nna nowi- tng ts rn-ii'Mf resolved upon by the North, and persisted in without regard to paity names or party ties, or individual designs or predilections. There is not an honest tho violntion of the rights of the North, to patriot in the North of any parly who ' assert thtm, as all have united in the. South does n it condemn this net of bad faith. I to deny them, tho injustice will soon be Mmy.it is trm-, warped by schemes of . remedied. When the North is true to itself, !elfish ambition and locking to their ad- j there are multitudes in the other section vancement through Southern influence, say who will perceive the iniquity it has suf-the mischief done, cannot be repaired. j fered, but who would never see it, if tame-The compromise can not be rt stored be-Jy acquiesced in. There are thousands in cause the Senate and tho President hold a J the South who are sensible of the danger vote to forbid it. There was immeasura-1 to themselves in lite breach of tho com-bly a stronger vote against tho expunging pacts about Slavery who estimate truly Resolution the ball which Benton solitary j the cnsi quenccs of a rupture of good feel-aid alone, put in motion. But public opin-J ing between tho sections nnd who, rather ion tr.umphed then over the strongest wills j than bring matters to tho arbitrament, to and the ao'est men of the country. It can-j which they seem to b- hastening, would not bi withstood by the puppets now in the, willingly seo the broken compacts restored scene. In the meantime, the strong rep- hut if from want of concert of action, resentalion of the North in the House can tho North, however, injured nnd excited noiu everything in noeyance until the JNa-i lion's voice shall pronounce its irresistiblo decision. Tha' the South will acquiesce in it, whatever (he violent men, who seek a dissolution of the Union to make Charleston the New York of the South, none can doubt. How can it assume thn attitude of nullification, and war upon the compromises nnd compacts of its own seeking matured by its own greatest Statesmen, under which they have enjoyed peace and safety for two-thirds of a century, and the subversion of which makes the tennre, not only of I he domestic Institution, but of all they hold dearest in public or private life, depend on the chai.e s of civil war. Whenever this issue comes, the North will find an auxiliary in that same Union party in the South, that sustained Jackson, and my constituents will have the proudpre-emi-nence of haVin first given in their adhesion to this, the really patriotic party of their section. . , Tin repeal of the repealing clause of the Xebraska Kansas act, would be the finale of all the existing commotions, and of the eager nmbition which originated them. If this single line is inscribed on our Flag we shall conquer under it. It will be the Un ion Flag. The repeal of the Kansas Nebraska clause, overthrowing the rights of the Free Stales, is a vital, pressing exigency, It is the issue made by .(he acts of. the administration, and is the only one producing the existing excitement. It should be moved at once in the House of Representatives, as a practical mode of redressing the wrongs and rebuking the aggressors, and (o give - q - " r notice that the maioritv of the people of the Union mean to vindicate their rights! and" the cause of free institution, , In, the most direct manner; and also, that slave holders may have warning in advanco, not to hazard the property they value so highly, in a territory from which by solemn covenant slavery was interdicted, and which the sovereign power of tho country has resolved to reinstate. This warning is necessary to preclude the plea of vested rights; as having effect in favor of such as go into Kansas or other freo territory with slaves; a plea which was urged successful- ly in Missouri. It is necessary too to stop owners or slaves irora claiming indemnity for slaves, freed by the act of Congress, recognizing such territory on coming into the Union as free. Even if Kansas were admitted at the present session of Congress as a Free State, the repeal ought to bo urged to prevent the repetition of the Kansas outrages, in New Mexico, Utah, and all the territory of the United States, tho Nebraska net having (in violation of the pro-hibitory laws or treaty,) opened them all up to similar invasions. For these reasons, and many more that might be urged, touching the policy of tho measure, I bold that every issue should merge in that of Jtepeai. There is one view more which duty lo my Southern constituents prompts me to present for con-ideration. In tiie South both the old part;es, Whig nnd Democratic, have blended their itregUi, to secure the conquest of the free terriuries for the Slave Institution. Mr. Caruthers.n staunch Whig of M.ssotin, when askinl where were the Whig party; answered lint its soul had transmigrated into the Dern icra ic body in the South, and while pronouncing the proudest culogium on Henry Clay whose principles he still held as his poliiioal faith, admit ed that the measure on which the slave holding section had planted its stand-arJ, iiad identified in its support the Whigs and Democrats of the slave holding States, however differing on other questions. The South Americans, although all connection with them was reprobated by the Democratic Caucus of the House and bv the of- n i - ., .... . nciai organ oi tne Administration at Wash ML'ton. were constranied to sunnnrt Mr. ! the Northern aspirants for the Presidency , to rur. a race for the favor of the South, in j showing who would go farthest and fastest . to make surrender of the rights of their constituents lo the slaveholdiii" section, leaves no puhlic man in the Sju'.Ii any oth;r alternative than to relin vttUh his position, or insist on that great conquest for the slaveholder iiiteivsr. tn which it was contrived to give the appenrnnce of what they are sensible honor and good faith recognizes ns binding, because made by its own statesmen, then in command of the Governmmt, aud sanctioned by their own consent. In the South there can never be 1 a party to asiist in redressing this wron", until the North dispels by its unanimity the ; illusion, that its people are willing to ac- quiesce in it. The hopes depending on parly leaders, ' controlling everywhere the old oraniza- tion of the Democratic party ia the free States and tho influence and patronage of ine au ministration, nave done much to stifle the voice of the masses in the Free States, If they will in the approaching Presiden- tial election unite all parties, indignant at can maue no ettectuni resistance, it may prepare for a repetition of indignities and wrongs to which those who offer (hem will set no limit when there is no bound to submission. This Republican Convention is a nucleus which it mny be hoped will gather around it the mass of the North who are resolved to redress tho wrong perpetrated by tho passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act. . "Republican parly" was the early designation of that which subsequently took the soubriquet of Democrat at first given in derision. Mr. Jefferson in his first inaugural, calling the parlies bynames under which they then were arrayed against each oilier, said "we are all Republicans, we are all federalists." He meant, doubtless, that there were certain great principles in which both ngreed embraced in iheir designations, however much they disagreed about matters of policy and modes of administering the Government. Tho Federalists gave their support to the Republican form of government. The Republicans were devoted to the federal compact; both agreed in opposition to royalty, nnd in opposition to a severance of the federation, and leaving the States to drift as petty nations detached from each other. May not those who have organized with a J view to correct what they consider more error in the legislation and administration of Government, under.' whatever party name or watchword they rally, unite with those who do not agree with them about the measure) or mode of reform on points which involve nothing vital, to redeem the Government from an infraction of the fun-amental laws, on which they believe its peace and prosperity certainly depend, and t r nossiblr its Unitv ns a nation? Cannot all parlies in the North unite in such a crisis. to preserve "whrtt they In common feel to be paramount to all other questions in con troverBy which have heretofore divided them, and cannot all rallv under a Renub lican Standard to defend the cnuso of free institutions nnd the Union awinst the nnr gressions of interested and ambitious men. who make slavery a means of combining a sectionnl force to accomplish (heir designs against them, and especially if this moment ue lost me cause must be lost; The great object of defeatin? this at tempt, by putting all questions of difference in abeyance for a time, does not imply a surrender oi tho party principles, or of the organizations to bo employed to give effect to them hereatler. Hut such is the rcluo tance of men who have battled for a cause under a banner to which thev have riven their affections so loyal are the hearts of gooci men, even to the badges they have worn nnd which they honor, that they will not desert them for others, although they feel the necessity of uniting with those whom they have once opposed, in support of still dearer and more important interests. I think this noble feeling should be con sulted by this Convention in tho arrange ments it may make to produce concert among nil parties who place tho preservation of the free territories from Slavery (and as a result, the preservation of tho Union,) above all other subjects of controversy, and it is to be hoped that measures be adopted to induce all the friends of Ibis cause, who are willing to take part in nom inating candidates for tho first and second officers of the Government in the Republican Convention, to send delegates to sep arate Conventions under their own party designations, to meet nt the same lime and place to confer upon the subject of the nom inations, nnd in conclusion, if found neces sary anu practicuoie, to unito m a mnss meeting of the Representatives of all par ties, drawn together to confer in regard to the means of extricating the country from the threatening and most alarming position in which it is now placed surrendering for tho occasion all questions of minor dif ferences of policy, nnd reform nnd personal predilections, for men of this or that party, nnd giving, as did lha patriots of the Revolution, the whole heart to the cause aiijd nothing but the cause, nnd thus bv joint counsels secure a glorious triumph for ine conservative principle ot our govern mentthe public will. Tho candidates of such a mass meeting would stand above the conflicts of pnrtizan politics, and like the elevated duels who led in the estab lishment of our inlependence, would value no man but as a contributor, to the success of the great cause of the country. LEAP YEAR. . . It is well'known fact that the ladies are nllowed, by the conventional rules of socie ty and common consent, to take the lead of the men every leap year, and if they feel disposed, to go so lar as to "pop the ques tion" without' being considered rude or forward. Although the right and privilege is conceded to the ladies, we seldom hear of them taking advantage of it. However, one case in which the lady did avail herself of the privileges of leap year, occured in this city on New Year's day. We will relate the particulars, but not givo the real names, for the reason that the parties' are residents of this city, and might not relish the idea of having the privacy of their domestic affairs brought before the public. There is a certain fashionable; boarding house in this city(we will locate it on Third street) where a very handsome young widow was boarding. This lady we will call widow Cheerly, who has a fortune of some $30,000, left her by her deceased husband, and no children. Three young clerks, (we will name them Smith, Brown, and Jones,) who formerly boarded at this boarding house, called upon the landlady on New Years day. The Widow Cheerly was in her room, and saw the young gents approaching. She immediately "dressed herself up in her bridal array," called the landlady and inquired the names of the young gents. The landlady informed her, when she remarked, "I intend to hare one of,those young men for a husband." The landlady smiled incredulously, and then went down to the parlor to receive her visitors. The widow followed immediately, and without waiting for an introduction, approached Smith, and said; "Will you consent to become my husband?" The young man blushed, and was very much confused at hearing the question from a lady he had never before seen, but he finally succeeded in stammering out "Owing to the shortness of our acquaintance which is very short, and having some slight claims upon my affections, yon will phase excuse me, "Certainly," said the widow, "I will with pleasure, as I did not notice this gentleman," addressing Mr. Brown, "before I spoke to you, or else I would have proposed to him first. Will you marry me Mr. Brown?" "I will'" said Brown, "the ico is now broken. I would have been a married man years ago if I could have mustered coui nge enough to pop the question, but as you have taken advantage of leap year and removed the stunib ing block, I will become your husband just as soon as you please." uight on," remarked the widow; landlady, you will pleas send for my bonnet, and other outdoor apparel. The necessary articles were sent for, and Mr. Brown, wiih his intended hanging gracefully on his arm, started for the residence of the pastor of the Boatman's church. When the minister was about to unite the couple in the bonds of wedlock, they gave him their names, and each heard for the first time, their names. ' During the last half of the year 1855, no less than four ministers and priests, four lawyers, eight doctors, and twohundred and eighly-two women were arresteJm Chicago for crimer" Ob, what a placel Vltvetand Ltadtr ' tTl am taking down the census of denslj populated neighborhood," as the fellow said when he swallowed the skip- jiery cheese. THE ENOW NOTHING CONVENTION. TheClosinf Scenes The Holt and the Nouiiuuliou"-An Iutorentiug Row, The motion to go into the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President was made by the famous Parson Brownlow, of Tenn., nnd carried by yeas 151; nays 51. Tho N. Y. Tribune's reporter says of this motion: It had all the Southern votes, all of N. York, half of Pennsylvania, a quarter of uuio, two-thirds of Massachusetts nnd Wisconsin, and part of Illinois; Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts furnished tho votes against it. SPEECH OV PERKINS, OF CONN. When (he vote was declared. Mr. Per kins, of Conn., rose, and after intense confusion and excitement for some moments, commanded full attention. He had litllo now to say for the North, only he should speak a little more in earnest. Gentlemen of the South had before stated their posi tion; ho would now state that of the mi nority. It was generally conceded that if men participate in a nomination, whether a principle is involved or not, all who joined in makinsr a nomination were bound bv it. Now, that there may be no misunderstand ing, i will, as a deputy by my friends of i. . : . . j .. .... it . mo uiiuuniy, state uuruecision. we nave come at lust to a test question. There are two great questions before tho minds of the people of this country; One is the is sue of Americanism, which is simply the reiorra ot .Naturalization jjaws; that we are ngreed in. But, sir, there is nnother question which must he an element in the coming canvnss, in which the people are deeply interested; that is, tht question of what snail be done about to the restoration of Freedom to Kansas; what shall be done to compensate the North for the loss of that guaranty for freedom which has been stolen from them. Tho South admits that the Kansas-Nebraska act wns a frxud; they cannot and dare not deny it. This ques tion cannot be ignored: it must be mel; no cnndidate can be nominated whose po sition on that question is doubtful. You must declare yourselves in this issue. The South would have seceded Irom this convention hud the Twelfth Section been re pealed purely and simply; they owned it; and now will they expect us to do less than they would have done? The free territory was ours by compact, by argument, by the most solemn sanction. You have stolen it from us by the treachery of Northern men; you admit that you ouiiht to re store to us our own, but you refuse to do it. This is a practical question it is no abstraction. JNow what is your chance on your platform which means nothing, or is a lJro blavcry one? You cannot carry me J50UU1 not a single atate, in any event Wo could sweep the whole North on our platform, and you do your br st to defeat us; you commit a suicide. You pretend that wo are to bo sold out to the Black Republicans; I know no such. But we shall those of us who are driven away from you go for our principles our A-mericanism, our freedom; and the Republicans of the country will join with us. Mr. Perkins derided the" idea of danger to the Union. No man on this floor believes a dissolution of the Union is possible; it is an idle dream a silly fantasy. The Union is in no danger, and no man thinks it is. If you won't give us what we demand, we will take it ourselves, and the Union will not be dissolved. Every President, from Washington to James K. Polk, has done all we claim shall be done now; and yet the Union has not suffered. You cannot carry this Union on stars and stripes and the American eagle without something reliable to stand upon. We can save Americanism and secure freedom to the territories together, and we will do it. We are nut going to sizzle and fade out; we are going out hs the American party of the Un ion, standing upon the plattorm we have presented this morning, nnd calling a Convention for the whole Union, standing up on the platform. We have got a Fugitive Slave law; we obey it; but we will nol hunt niggers; there is no gentleman on this floor North or South, who will engage in this business of hunting niggers not one of you. We in Connecticut don't think much of this law we don't think it Constitution al, but we do not intend to dissolve the Union because of it. It was passed more ns an illustration of favor, than as a practical measure just to see how far you could crowd tho north. Mr. Perkins concluded his most admirable and eloquent speech with the announcement that all Delegates of Connecticut, and others from the Free Stales who agree with Ihem, would now retire from the Convention. After more speaking in this line, a nominating ballot wns taken (each delegate naming his candidate) and the following was the result: Millard Fillmore of N.Y.. ........... 71 George Law of N. Y. ....... , ?7 Garrett Davis of Ky 13 John McLean of Ohio 7 Richard F. Stockton of N. J 8 Sam Houston of Texas 6 John Belt of Tenn 5 Kenneth Raynor of N. C 2 Ei as' us Brooks of N. Y 2 Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio t John M. Clayton of Del.. 1 Total vote................. m., 143 Mr. Knight . of Rhode Island voted for Fillmore, and no other New England delegate voted. New York voted, Fillmore, 9; Law, 15; Houston, 6; Ernslus Brooks, 1; New Jersey swallowed Com. Stockton entire. ' Pennsylvania (that remomed in JT divided between Gov. Johnson, McLean and Fillmore. . The few Ohio men remaining voted for Law or Fillmore. Kentucky went together for Garrett Davis, and. with scarce an exception, the entire balance of the Hlave states voted for Fillmore. ' The remit of the voting was hailed with great satisfaction by the South and the New York Fillmore men. . The former had secured a bslter gwwanty than any plat- NO. 17 form than even the Twelfth- Section (hat their policy was td bo protected. by the rreat National American n&rtv. - tint (ho Law men drooped sadly; their bubble was burst; men had Voted against them with their dinners and wine in their stomachs, to say nothing of money in their bock-els.Tho Convention then, at 4 o'clotk, took a recess till 5. , i When the Northern men seceded they were derided with insults by the Southern1 men and doughfaces of the North. Cries of "Good riddance," "Glad you are gone," "Black Republicans," dee., were heard id different parts of the house. j EVENINO SESSION. The Convention was called to order at 5 o'clock. . ,i Then was hod tho formal ballot for candidate for President, and the result was as follows the voting being, not by individual delegates, as in the informal ballot, but by States, according to their Federal rep resentation: Millard Fillmore I79 George Law 24 Kenneth Ray nor. ................ 14 John McLean 13 Garreit Davis ifj Sam Houston 3 Whole number , . . ; 243 Necessary to a choice J ; 122 Millard Fillmore, of New York, was then declaied the nominee of the National American Convention for President of the United States. Great excitement ensued, and the Convention was in a tremendous uproar for some moments. , ; , Erastus Brooks of New York returned thanks to the South in behalf of Mr. Fillmore.The Law men were terribly down in th's mouth. . Gen. A. K. Call of Florida, Kenneth. Ray nor of North Carolina, Andrew J. Don-elson of Tennes ee, and several others, were named for iho Vic Presidency. . ., Speeches were made by Mr. Lake of Miss., in behalf of Percy Walker's nomination, arid by Mr. Call of Florida for Major A.J. Donelson of Tennessee. A scene of great tumult ensued; and at last the voting for Vice President commenced. The struggle was chiefly between Donelson and Walker. ' The result of the ballot for Vice President was as follows: A. J. Donelson of Tennessee 18 4 Percy Walker of Mississsippi 8 H. J. Gardner of Massachusetts.'.'....' 8! Kenneth Kaynor of North Carolina.'..' ' 8 A. J. Donelson of Tennessee received the unanimous nomination, for the Ytca Presidency. , Donelson spoke as follows: I lack words to express my thanks for the vote with which yotf have honored ine. I have not sought it, and I shall not do-clinc it, although during Mr. Fillmore's administration he did not agree with us, jet he said we ought to be more Americanized. I have many letters from him, and they all breathe the warmest attachment to the constitution and the Union. I live at the South and I am owner of more than an hundred slaves, and I like the institution as warmly 83 any man bora south of Maio'n and Dixon' line. PROTEST. OF THE OHIO MEMBERS Of TUB NATIOJIA1 COUNCIL- Merchants' Hotel, Cut 0Frnir,., --February, 22, 1856. f The undersigned persons, delegates from Ohiojto the National Council, which assembled in this city on the 18th inst for the purpose of amending or altering the platform adopted in June last, having had forced upon the American order a hew on; as odious as the one repealed, the principles of which are widely different fronK those entertained by ourselves and the constituents whom we represent therefore; we do hereby utterly repudiate its doctrines, and do not consider ourselves bound to support any candidate placed before the country on such platform. J. H. Baker, Thomas Spoone, David Ayerea, Henry C. Heges, D. W. Stambaugh, W. B. Chapman; D. W. Swigsrt, ' E. J. Sturdivant, L. II. Olds, Thomas H. Ford,- A. D. Rogers, , John Johnston, Thomas McLees; B. S. Kyle, - Win. B. Allison; O. T. Fishback, R. M. Corwine, D. B. Thomas; J. B. Potter. The following little document has found its way into the N. Y. Times: We concur in the secession from tli Convention, but do not concur in the call for a Convention, believing that the whole north ought to unite in a common organization to resist the aggression of Slavery. W. P. CLARKE, of Iowa, D.W. STAMBAUGH, of 0.,! THOS. SPOONER, of Ohio, CIIAS. 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